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Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2001 12:06:12 +0100
From: Jerome Lessard <jeromelessard@yahoo.co.uk>
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Hey, i've just downloaded and installed postgres
from the source code. the version is 7.1.3, i followed
the "Short Version" from the install file:

i think once has to change the owner of /usr/local/pgsql/data
to postgres:postgres before being able to run
/usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /usr/local/pgsql/data

voila

thanks for postgres

jerome